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milk or potatoes, she must drink 6 pints of milk, or eat 7 pounds 

 of potatoes, daily. To supply all the waste that takes place every 

 24 hours, she would be compelled to eat one-half more than the 

 quantities above named. The loss of dry fibrin in an ox would 

 amount to 26 ounces in 24 hours; to supply this the animal must 

 eat the following quantities of one or other of the kinds of ibod 

 here mentioned : 



122 lbs of turnips; 117 lbs of wheat straw; .22 lbs of meadow 

 hay; 69 lbs of potatoes ; 77 lbs of carrots; 19 lbs of clover hay; 

 7 lbs of beans; 12 lbs of oats; 14 lbs of barley. 



Any animal will grow far faster by mixing either of the above 

 articles, than by feeding them separately. 



A full-grown ox rejects in its excrements and perspiration as 

 much saline and earthy matter as its food contains, therefore the 

 benefits derived from frequent use of salt is clearly shown. 



The health of our domestic animals can only be sustained by 

 mixing food. Vegetable matters eaten by a full-grown animal to 

 keep it in condition, must contain, 1st. Starch, to replace the car- 

 bon respired. £d. Fatty matter, to form that substance. 3d. 

 Gluten to supply the waste of the muscles. 4. Phosphates to 

 supply the daily waste. 5. Salt, sulphates and chlorides, to re- 

 place daily excretions. 



In an animal which is increasing in size or weight, the food 

 forms a double function, it must sustain and increase the body 

 at the same time; but the nature of the food will depend upon 

 the kind of increase the farmer desires; if he desires his animals 

 to lay on fat rapidly, he will, in addition to his ordinary food, ad- 

 minister oil cake or linseed oil mixed wilh cut straw, cracklings, 

 or the skinny part of suet, or cheap oils; bran is very fattening 

 from the fact that it is derived from the outer skin of grain, 

 which holds the oily matter of seeds; rice dust will flitten ani- 

 mals, but rice will not; so barley dust and oat dust is good for 

 that purpose. 



I can take a calf of the purest Ayrshire breed, which would 

 naturally have a fine bone and splendid limbs, and b}^ feeding, 

 convert it into a raw boned, ill-shaped and ungainly animal ; and 

 on the other hand, I would engage to take a calf of common 

 breed, which if left to nature would disgrace any barn yard, and 

 by the same means make it an ornament to a gentleman's lawn. 



A pregnant cow requires much more food, than one not in that 

 condition, as she has to nourisli the calf in her womb, and the 

 quantity must be increased as pregnancy advances, to supply the 



